A Western New York school district is pausing its humanoid robot pilot after state officials raised privacy and classroom ...

New York Focus is growing bigger and better with its first-ever events manager and a permanent hire for its manager editor ...

Paraquat is banned in more than 70 countries. In an upstate town one resident calls “Parkinson’s Valley,” farmers are ...

Pamela Brown will receive most of her money back after New York Focus exposed failures in the handling of her lawyer-theft ...

Boards of Visitors are supposed to oversee state-run disability and psychiatric programs. Almost none of them have enough ...

Amazon supplied almost all the funding for a campaign presented as a coalition of New York City workers, small businesses, and national carriers.

Plans to deploy a "lifelike" robot and avatar teaching assistant at Salamanca High School have sparked debate over the role ...

Health care union 1199SEIU collaborated with a troubled home care company, Public Partnerships LLC, on messaging, political ...

New York state has oscillated on criminal justice reform in recent years. Under former Governor Andrew Cuomo, it passed ...

At the state Capitol, major bills are now negotiated in secret not once, but twice. As the legislative session ends in June, the legislature hammers out hundreds of bills behind closed doors before ...

An independent review found violence, weak oversight, outdated training, and dysfunction across New York’s prison system.

New York is projected to spend $36,293 per student in the 2024–25 school year, nearly double the national average. In 2023–24, the state spent $35,095 per student on elementary and secondary education ...